Kontrapunkt
[ˈkɔntʁapʊŋkt]
The verdict
“Kontrapunkt” is uncommon German (frequency #53,006 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,006
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - melodisch und rhythmisch eigenständig geführte Stimme (eigenständige Gegenstimme zum Thema, gleichwertiger „Partner“ der anderen Stimme(n) in einem polyphonen Satz)
Corpus desk
Index DE-kontrapunkt · Kontrapunkt · German
Kontrapunkt · rank #53,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,006
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH konsequentes
Nearest frequency peer: konsequentes (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Kontrapunkt“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Konfliktpar…
Konfliktparteien
46,998 corpus weight
- Konformität
Konformität
46,997 corpus weight
- konsequentes
konsequentes
46,996 corpus weight
- Kontrapunkt
Kontrapunkt
46,995 corpus weight
- kontrolliere
kontrolliere
46,994 corpus weight
- kostenlosem
kostenlosem
46,993 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kontrapunkt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kontrapunkt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkɔntʁapʊŋkt] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kontrapunkt“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kontrapunkt is uncommon German at frequency #53,006 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈkɔntʁapʊŋkt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kontrapunkt, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Kontrapunkt, spelled K-O-N-T-R-A-P-U-N-K-T.
Definition
- 1melodisch und rhythmisch eigenständig geführte Stimme (eigenständige Gegenstimme zum Thema, gleichwertiger „Partner“ der anderen Stimme(n) in einem polyphonen Satz)
- 2die Kunst beziehungsweise Technik, Gegenstimmen zu gegebenen Tonfolgen zu erfinden
- 3synonyme Verwendung für Polyphonie, Mehrstimmigkeit
- 4deutlich erkennbarer Gegensatz
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kontrapunkt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man „nennt […] die Stimme, die in einer Fuge gleichzeitig mit dem Thema bzw. Soggetto erklingt, dessen Kontrapunkt.“
„Der Kontrapunkt als Kompositionstechnik unterlag in der Musikgeschichte sich wandelnden Regeln, die von der wechselnden Bewertung von Konsonanzen und Dissonanzen abhingen.“
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).